As most of you will know my aim is to revolutionise the way organisations approach strategy, leadership and innovation. My advice has helped to put innovation into business, helping to instigate bold visions and objectives. I help organisations have meaningful conversations about what it takes to be exceptional and create real innovation capability. The New Year is an opportunity for a clean slate – people are refreshed and more susceptible to change instigation than in a stagnant or negative mind frame, which a difficult year may have incited.
So, here are my top ten tips for implementing change in 2011, and the New Year’s Resolutions your business can’t afford to ignore.
Get Strategic! - Leave the past two years of negativity behind and create a new vision for the future and the legacy you want to leave. Make sure the challenge is bold enough but achievable enough then communicate it to your people.
Get Ahead! - Give your HR, OD or talent leader a seat at the board table. If they haven't got the business acumen, teach them so they can become a more strategic part of the organization. Cultivate talent and understand the importance of finding and nuturing great leaders.
Get Real! - Employee engagement 'HAS' an impact on business success, FACT! If you haven't got a strategy, create and implement one as fast as possible.
Get Creative! - Banish the 'status quo' from your organisational vocabulary and start looking at embedding a 'culture of innovation' as a strategic way forward. Strive for the exceptional and others will follow. Creativity is an attitude, and one that considers experimentation, repetition and trying things out to be the norm, not the unusual. Creative people are always wondering how to improve the ideas and solutions they come up with, striving for better results.
Get Inspirational! - Communicate to your people that the 'performance' you want from them is less to do with financial targets and more to do with their desire and ability to be exceptional. In my experience results will follow once this culture is created.
Get Talking! - Create a format to allow regular conversations with your people about what they want and need in order to inspire and engage them. This will create an open market for ideas that will ultimately benefit your business and increase the personal and job satisfaction of your employees.
Get Connected! - Double-check your organisations internal relationships are aligned. If they aren't, find out where the tension lies and create a route to the 'breakthrough culture' you need.
Get Practical! - Create a sincere and sustainable way to tick the two main drivers for your employees, 'involve' them and 'appreciate' them.
Get Emotional! - Check that the following are present in your organization every day; Vision, Passion, Engagement, Creativity, Shared Purpose, Collaboration, Risk & Sincerity. If they're not, add them in!
Get Sensible! - When doing all of the above, find a way to embed my three sense checks into every process. LOVE; if we do this will our people love it? DESIRE; if we do this will our customers desire it? HATE; if we do this will our competitors hate it?
Good luck!
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